In a report issued this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in cooperation with the Lightning Power provider Voltage Sadr a a report On the condition of the lightning network.
The report explains many of the ways that the lightning network has grown since its launch in 2018.
He also explains how more companies have begun to integrate lightning in 2024 more than any previous year, that large channels are formed on the network and that more lightning nodes come online.
Some main statistics of the piece include the following:
- The total capacity of the curved lightning in US dollar increased by 2,767 % since 2020
- Its capacity in Bitkeen grew by 384 % in the same period
- Currently, almost all payments on lightning less than 1,000,000 SAT are treated in less than 1.1 seconds
Although these statistics made me optimistic, other information in the report was really resonated with me and made me rethink how to see Bitcoin and Lightning.
Here are the three most important fast food from the report:
- Lightning payments are gaining traction on our (The largest circular economy in the world), where Nostr users have sent more than 3.6 million individual people in the past six months
- Projects like ARK, another Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol, shows that lightning has cases that go beyond mere channels to analogy (ARK allows users to share the hypothetical UTXOS (VUTXOS) with a larger group instead of one to one basis) that can be built in ways that he did not expect Many in the beginning
- “Hodl” is the things that still slow down the lightning of lightning; In other words, if bitcoin lovers do not spend Bitcoin, lightning will run, which may harm the suggestion of bitcoin value
Therefore, since we are here at the beginning of 2025, the year that many believe will be great for lightning, I can only be optimistic to know the type of lightning gains in the next ten months.
It is more time for bitcoin as a way to exchange – the way Satoshi means.